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With their parents, supporters and the advocates in this fight %97 Riley Gaines and Paula Scanlan, a former teammate of Lia Thomas %97 in the crowd inside a downtown Roanoke hotel, the 10 members became the first group of college teammates to speak out as a unit.

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In an interview with the Daily Mail, the captains said a team meeting was held and that's when things came to a boiling point. Pearson gave the team's case for not being supportive including the fact that records would be smashed and how the women felt, biologically, this inclusion just wasn't right.

"And after I was done speaking, the individual immediately jumped to saying: I was suicidal, I wanted to kill myself, I wanted to jump off the building of Trexler, which is one of our science buildings here," Pearson remembered.

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To be fair, men have been trying to swim with women since the dawn of humanity.

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To say this won’t end well is an understatement. To say Gymnastics Australia just threw females and girls under the bus is an understatement. What is wrong with you guys??? This “inclusion” actually will EXCLUDE biological women and most of all girls. #whataboutthegirls ??? https://t.co/eZriHAOKsv

— Martina Navratilova (@Martina) October 5, 2023

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That link is worth the click. Tan line warning.

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MD1993 said:

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That link is worth the click. Tan line warning.

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aggiehawg said:

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I agree with Martina. This makes no sense.

To say this won’t end well is an understatement. To say Gymnastics Australia just threw females and girls under the bus is an understatement. What is wrong with you guys??? This “inclusion” actually will EXCLUDE biological women and most of all girls. #whataboutthegirls ??? https://t.co/eZriHAOKsv

— Martina Navratilova (@Martina) October 5, 2023

I loved gymnastics but then I grew too tall to be able to do much of women's gymnastic events. Once my legs got to long, I could not do the uneven parallel bars, for instance. And forget the balance beam.

Men's and women's centers of gravity are far different.

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I loved gymnastics but then I grew too tall to be able to do much of women's gymnastic events. Once my legs got to long, I could not do the uneven parallel bars, for instance. And forget the balance beam.

Men's and women's centers of gravity are far different.

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I just want to see an intact male straddle a balance beam without wrecking his balls. A reverse hip circle swing on the uneven bars could be an ouch moment as well.

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I just want to see an intact male straddle a balance beam without wrecking his balls. A reverse hip circle swing on the uneven bars could be an ouch moment as well.

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Yep. I think women's gymnastics is going to be safe from any "trans" interlopers that didn't go all the way with their transition.

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I just want to see an intact male straddle a balance beam without wrecking his balls. A reverse hip circle swing on the uneven bars could be an ouch moment as well.

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Yep. I think women's gymnastics is going to be safe from any "trans" interlopers that didn't go all the way with their transition.

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Our pelvises are built differently. We can take that stress. Can men? Doubtfull.

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I love to go swimmin' with bow-legged women.

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